January 2008 Shiny New Year Toddlers - I want it nooooooooooooooow!!!

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Here's new thread - enjoy

JKS - sounds like you have everything under control, as muxh as you can obv.

LOL at T and fire guard

Dcs here have 3 advent calenders each

One I bought for them to share, I each someone in ireland bought and one each my mum bought them. All with chocolate in them.

M's nappies will be a state

M had been back in house 1 hour and pooed all through her leggings, up legs and oozing out of vest so am guessing she ate something in ireland she shouldn't have done

Keeping J off school tom as they got back late and want to make sure he is ok tbh.

Filly - great news on Tamara's walking with buggy. TBH it was tzhe wheelybug that gave M the confidence to walk. She would push it around all the time

Kids got so many pressies from Ireland and M got a lovely purple rain coat and she loved it so much she wanted to wear it to bed

forgot to ask...

when is everyone putting up Xmas decorations??

We will be doing ours the 12th i think
Foundthis good deal for cheap dvd / books etc. just bought miracle on 34th street for 49p and santa claus movie for 94p

Afternoon ladies and happy advent
Many congratulations to Neatha
JKS I hope all your plans work. My sisters birthday on the 14th so I shall raise my glass to you all .
Simpson at Ms accident. Back to square one I guess. 3 calenders each? The boys have one each bought by Nanny and Grandad. As JKS said cheap nasty choc but then they don't care. In fact it was quite hard to explain to Edward he was only aloud one a day because he wanted them all NOW
Filly it sounds like you had a fantastic day at all the museums wow I don't George could even do that much walking clever Tamara xx
Well we had a busy weekend. My big boys were here. Saturday morning we went to my local shopping mall. It just so happened father christmas was there. George was at home with DH but David and Edward saw santa. He was a lovely santa and listened intently while David waffled about the Ghostbusters stuff he wanted Edward just said he wanted a car
Then on Sunday we all went to my Aunt and Uncles house who we havn't seen in some years. It was so lovely to catch up and to see how everyone has grown.
Edward went to his check up at the dentist this morning. All is fine
Well thats about it. Bye for now xxx

Oh and we always put our decs up on the 14th Dec. Near enough to Christmas before I get fed up with it all keep falling down stupid concrete ceilings...

Simpson - hope you get M back on track asap - naughty of them lot to let her have stuff that's bad for her &

Gingeme - sounds like a patient Santa!!

Lily - i couldn't figure out that website. prob best as i've bought enough for T now anyway, including dvds off ebay.

Well think i will get the decs down from the attic tomorrow then DH has thurs afternoon off so we could do most stuff then. Should have done them last weekend i think when we didn't have anything on.

Off out to orchestra in a mo, some tough pieces to be ready for the 12th dec performance

Tomorrow afternoon plan is soft play with T & friends + tea there, works out really well and it's (bizarrely) very relaxing for me as T is so independent he just goes off and plays.
Look forward to taking H there too - makes tea easy too

right, enough waffling, hooray for December

Quick question: if you sell something on ebay and the buyer doesn't pay, can you just relist it? The auction finished on the 19th of November.

LaT have you reminded them atleast twice to pay? If so yeah go ahead and re list. Blimey your patient. I would have given up and taken it down the charity by now

Well, really I've not been feeling well enough to bother.

I contacted them once. I actually just relisted it as I thought I'd waited enough time but now I'm worried and I don't know how to withdraw it.

LaT you really need to go through the non paying buyer thing.
Log onto your sale page and scroll down where it says leave feedback etc there is an option for opening a dispute.
You shouldn't really relist it until you have done this. They have 14 days to pay but then you get your final listing fees back.
I would end the item now.

JKS shame as it is bargain.

We just back from H carol concert at church!! Had lovely evening

I don't know how to end it.

Done it!

If you click on items your selling is there not an option to end at the side ?
Can't think will go over to ebay and look or put question in ebay here ?

ooh x post
you may as well get your listing fees back.
Open a non paying buyer dispute , they usually pay then tbh anyway

Hi folks, hope all well... just a quick help! DS has started committing random acts of violence against our dog. Dog is a very gentle creature, if too thick to get out of the way . Has never snapped or anything like that IME. But - he is still a dog!

I'm actually finding this quite upsetting - no idea where he has picked it up from. I have to keep DS really occupied / entertained to stop him getting naughty at the moment. I'm useless with discipline though, he just laughs and does it again. WWYD ladies?

Hi Ange - sorry you are struggling with your lovely boy being naughty. A friend has lent me a book called Toddler Taming which I have found very useful and very down to earth.

And I think common wisdom is if a toddler commits violence to another child you tell them no then fuss over hte other child ignoring the toddler. Can imagine the same working with the dog. So he is violent to dog, you pull him away from dog, tell him firmly NO! Plonk him somewhere then go stroke an pat poor dog. Hopefully Alek will get the message that the dog instead of he himself gets the attention so it doesn't work. Be persistent!!

Yep that sounds about right

Ok. Another dilemma for you to solve!

As you know, Sabela isn't the world's best eater. She has a range of things that she likes but is very loathe to try other things.

Now, bear in mind she may be teething (but not in the full grip of it) and tell me if I'm doing the right thing.

She is getting incresingly unwilling to eat. I try not to make too much of a fuss, but she is starting to refuse even her favourite things. Today she ate a good breakfast (toast and porridge)a few bites of egg and toast at lunch and hardly touched her favourite salmon and rice this afternoon. I had deliberately not given her any snacks. She is used to having cereal before bedtime and I think this is what she was holding out for when she refused her dinner. She was certainly very hungry.

My plan is

• don't offer other foods if she's refusing what's offered (I'm not offering her

anything she doesn't like at the moment. In the past, we have offered alternatives if she doesn't like what she's eating - nothing exciting but something like apiece of bread)

• no snacks - only milk or water in between meals
• in two weeks I plan to stop the cereal before bedtime (I'm not harsh enough to do it straight away)

DH thinks she might be too little, but I feel that her eating is actually going backwards.

I think today she really isn't hungry as she's not even eating her cereal just now (DH is giving it to her as I write), but in general, would you think this is too harsh, or WWYD!

LaT last year I was in the same position with Nathan - I worried about his weight. I usually do although it is ok at the moment as his paediatrician has declared he is eating enough to grow and is in proportion (if very short!! - he weighs 20lb!). I gave him alternatives just to get him to eat, his very experienced childminder on the other hand refused point blank to give him anything else and by 3pm he ate his entire lunch. I learned from that.....rapidly. We do not do alternatives unless I try him with something very challenging and new like something spicy or a difficult texture.

Do you mean the childminder fed him the same lunch slowly?

LaT i have never made alternative meals for any of mine and they all eat pretty well.
However H will eat anyhting and everything in site L tends to go through eating everything to then having a week or two where she eats very little.
M is starting to do the same today she has had half slice toast , some fruit and breadstick at toddler group. She then left her sandwich at lunch and ate her grapes.
Then she picked at a bit of chicken at tea time but had yoghurt before bed.
I think it may be worth just monitoring her for a week or two to see if it is a habit developing or just a wane in eating generally.
I usually find L then eats me out of house and home to make up for it.
I would keep to the cereal though.

Ange sorry to hear A is being a pain with the dog but agree with MM!!!

Do you mean give up the cereal - sorry?

I personally would keep on giving it but i know everyone is very different when it comes to food.
I would feel happier knowing she has gone to bed with a full tummy tbh
But up to you as it is a very personal decision.
How you feeling today ?

Just dug out my old xmas name can't be bothered to think of a new one!!

Lily - like the name I'm sticking with my Halloween one for now - sure i will think of something different when we're in gosh... (JustKeepSane...?)

I feel useless when it comes to these problems with the LOs tbh. Don't have the same issues with H and it feel so long ago with T!
H eats almost everything we put in front of him, it's more a case of worrying about him exploding!

oh and Simps - we gave T his balance bike recently and he's distinctly unimpressed think it's cos it's wobbly and for the first time he feels unsure of himself. what did J do when he started with it?

When do we get christmas smilies....?!